If anything, March Madness and bracket competitions should serve as a fun celebration of a game millions of Americans love to watch.
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They are volunteering out of either a sense of community pride or a deep love of the game of golf.
Berankis then held to move within a game of victory, and although Ward then held to love, it was just a temporary delay as Berankis served for the set and the match, a victory which was sealed when a Ward backhand went into the net.
"He has a love of the game, and it comes through, " the person said.
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Take Gears of War, a game critics love to say people play for the action, not the story.
It is, however, true of Indian fast bowler Irfan Pathan, whose love of the game resulted in a scolding for him and younger brother Yousuf.
Fans complain that scores are too high across the board, but the same fans will lament if a game they love gets an 8 instead of a 9.
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"It is a game of couples, of partners, of love and community, " says Morris Zadok, 62, owner of a sporting-goods store dedicated largely to matkot and regarded as one of the sport's leading advocates.
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Murray and Kohlschreiber had never met before but the world number four soon asserted himself by grabbing a break of serve in just the fourth game before winning his next service to love and race into a 4-1 lead.
Another hold to love put Federer within a game of the 23-minute opening set and he took it at the second time of asking by unleashing a rasping cross-court backhand to pass Soderling at the net.
"For Love of the Game" is a perfect showcase for Costner's strongest character, that of the reluctant all-American hero.
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The strength of the 2008 junior champion's game is her ball-striking and it came to her aid in game eight as she broke to love with a fizzing return of serve, but Jankovic was climbing all over the Robson second serve and she broke once again to seal the set in 31 minutes.
Choplifter HD has been a labor of love for Fargo, who grew up playing the game.
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Many football clubs across the world are run at a loss by rich men, either for the love of the game or to boost their ego.
By then, the game had changed character and become an allegory of society and, increasingly, a metaphor of love.
Today, all of us will watch the game through the eyes of a child - with hope in our hearts, with this sport we love coursing through our veins.
The programs range from complex instructions for displaying pop-up windows to a 36-line memory-management utility from the open-source game Rooms of Doom that software writers love because it's more compact than the 72-line alternative.
Our game features thousands of pieces of original artwork, giving players a true sense of place within the world they love, Westeros.
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Better still, it conjures with real feelings -- fear, vulnerability, pain, a search for true love -- in the process of exploring the mad complexities of the modern dating game.
It was a schism that led to the formation of the establishment-approved Women's Tennis Association in 1973 -- which will be marked this year by the WTA's "40 Love" commemorative campaign, a celebration of four decades of progress in the women's game.
The Kolkata, India-based brothers first created a Web site for playing an online version of the word game Scrabble several years ago, "just for the love of the game, " says Jayant, 21, who also runs an offshore Web development firm with his brother.
As an adult, when I was somehow completely free of social and personal pressure, I would often sit in my car after a soccer game, removing my muddy cleats, reflecting on how truly joyous it is to play just for the love of it.
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